Stagflation, Unemployment and Oligopoly S R Sen How best to deal with the growing oligopolistic and oligarchic trends with a view to ensuring that their adverse effects on employment and economic...
Prespectives
Problematising Nationalism A Raghurama Raju The problem of nationalism in India needs to be approached not from the perspective of derivation/autonomy but from that of incorporation/assimilation. It...
The Third Stratum Nirmal Mukarji The fundamental question before panchayats everywhere in the country has for long been whether they are there for development functions only or for the wider purpose...
Communal Riots: Anticipation, Containment and Prevention S R Sen With the growth of fundamentalism, Hindu-Muslim riots are likely to become more frequent as also more dangerous, due to the easy...
India's Political System: What Is To Be Done? S R Sen The needed reform of our political system would cover several areas and there are bound to be many alternative proposals. This article has the...
Tradition, Power and Humanism Boudhayan Chattopadhyay One of the sources of the loss of legitimacy of 'existing socialism' as well as of 'organisation capitalism' is their alienation from the human...
India, Islam and the Pall of Postmodernism V R Krishna Iyer The Islamic fold faces a grave crisis
Rajwade's Weltanschauung and German Thought G P Deshpande It would be wrong to describe V K Rajwade as either a brahminical or a Hindu thinker. While there were many elements in his thought which...
Forgetting to Remember T Krishna Kumar Instead of remembering P C Mahalanobis and his many-sided contributions, the country has forgotten him and the legacy he left behind. A critical review of the...
The collapse of the socialist world has once again brought back dangers not only of authoritarianism but of a retreat from the contingent humanity of capitalism. Without the support of the ethical...
Overpopulation: The Great Red Herring? Aseem Shrivastava The environmental crisis we face today is a complex consequence of forces connected with technology, the economic system and demography that...
Security, Deterrence and the Future Raja Ramanna Stability is never possible with the ultimate weapons in the hands of a few. The problem cannot also be fragmented into regions of the world. Such...
Human Rights and the American Right Robi Chakravorti Civil rights issues which dominate the attention of the US media today deal with episodes of unequal treatment of people called "behavioural...
Of Cholera and Post-Modern World Mohan Rao An examination of the political and economic forces underlying the recent epidemic of cholera in Latin America reveals striking resemblances to the...
Family Courts: A Critique D Nagasaila The setting up of family courts represents a shift from legalism to welfarism. The introduction of conciliation and the informal justice system, without...
